Back in business … sort of

Sorry about not posting for a while - I’ve been up the last few nights nursing a very sick database. It is getting better. A bit of a cough, but nothing serious. We may both get some sleep tonight. I need it. I’m more tired than the Michelin Man.

The database is just 3 days old, by the way. Ah, shur, they’re gas at that age.

Anyway. Why am I posting now? Well, just to proffer a word of advice to you kids out there:

If you are thinking about moving your blog to your own domain on a hosted service without technical help - DON’T!!

It is hell! Even if you (think) you know what you are doing, like mise. So many things which are supposed to work, don’t. Everything needs to be figured out as you go along. Help files, I hear you say. What help files?, you hear me ask. In my case all three entities involved pointed me toward their user forum.

I can’t complain. I can’t sue. I can’t do anything, because the services were all either free or very low cost. But seriously, what kind of builder, for example, would build your house and then when you ask for information about where he ran the water pipes, would suggest you chat with your neighbours?

Maybe this shouldn’t be a post in itself. Maybe I should have just commented in my post for feedback on how folks find using Web 2.0 applications.

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My site is hosted by Yahoo using Wordpress. What a gargantuan mistake that was. I know I need filezilla to post pictures but I’m damned if I know how to proceed from there. Everything requires uploading from my computer to the remote server but I can never figure out where in the hell in the site’s backworkings I’m supposed to send it.

The people on the help fora are mostly lovely and remarkably generous with their time in answering your questions. But see, they can’t know just how little I actually understand about what they’re saying so I just retreat mumbling thanks and “Phew! Glad that’s all sorted”s when, in fact, I have learnt nothing about my particular problem at all but spent hours learning instead about other problems I hadn’t even realised existed. And then I boil my head and feel a lot better.

1. problemchildbride on April 24th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Sam - I’ve dropped you a mail on this.

I should have included a few lines on copyright but I only remembered now. Expect a second mail.

2. Primal Sneeze on April 25th, 2007 at 6:35 am